Vol 2 – Special Issue (July 2026)

The advent of social media has revolutionized the way we communicate, interact, and learn languages. This paper explores the influence of social media on second language acquisition (SLA), highlighting its potential benefits and challenges. Social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, offer unprecedented opportunities for language learners to...

This paper talks about the ethical crisis that emerges from the tension between her hatred towards the nation and emotional attachment. The story revolves around the main character Lara who explores political conditioning and emotional repression through a fractured ethical self.

The discipline of memory studies, which arose at the turn of the century, provided academics with an alternative perspective on the way the past and its telling should be interpreted. Kazuo Ishiguro, a modern author and the winner of the Nobel Prize and the Booker Prize for his literary work,...

The Partition of India in 1947, besides being a geographical partition, involved a long-term psychological displacement. Remnants of a Separation by Aanchal Malhotra is the subject of the study in this paper in which the interrelationship between trauma, memory and narrative reconstruction is explored. In the place of official historiography...

In this paper, the concept of trauma and the human mind is discussed based on The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story by A. Revathi, translated by V. Geetha, through a theoretical framework of Trauma Theory by Cathy Caruth. The argument expressed in the paper is that trauma in the life of...

The aim of this paper is to postulate the idea of ‘catastrophic time’ as a vast psychic split in the cultural memory framework. The 1947 Partition of India and the September 11 attacks are two major catastrophic incidents that upset the flow of subjective time, identity and remembrance violently. Using...

Chinese literature has often portrayed women as figures of sacrifice and care rather than as active decision-makers. In contemporary Danmei (gay) Literature, attention is usually focused on male–male relationships, cultivation power, and sect politics. This paper examines The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (Mo Dao Zu Shi) by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, a...

This research paper focuses on Assamese culture, identity and female subjectivity through the theme of displacement and emotional construction in Jahnavi Barua's novel Rebirth.

This study explores the conflict between unwanted emotional attachment and familial responsibility in Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth by using the Family Systems Theory.

Myths and folklores are living records of tradition, culture, and beliefs transmitted from one generation to the other. The prologue in Colson Whitehead’s John Henry Days (2001) presents fourteen variations of the myth of John Henry.